‘I blamed my mother’: How residential school trauma passed down generation to generation

‘I blamed my mother’: How residential school trauma passed down generation to generation

Video: How residential school trauma passed down generation to generation (Global News)

In his case, North Peigan said his parents' suffering had been passed down generation to generation. To him and now his children.

North Peigan, 57, president of the Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta, and the newly named national president of the Legacy of Hope Foundation, is from the Piikani First Nation in Treaty 7 territory in southern Alberta. Both of his parents were forced to attend an Indian Residential School (IRS).

The discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children found in an unmarked burial site at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., brought back a flood of emotion.

"It's been really, really traumatic," said North Peigan, from his home in Edmonton, Alta. His parents survived the residential school system but the years following the return to their community were marred by the scars unseen.

North Peigan and his siblings were taken from their home during the Sixties Scoop, a government policy that forcibly removed Indigenous children from their birth parents and sent to foster homes and other families for adoption.

North Peigan said he lived in a number of different foster homes and it wasn't until he aged out of the child welfare system in 1978 that he was able to return back to his first nation.

"I came home with a lot of anger and a lot of rage," said North Peigan, "because I blamed my mother -- that she wasn't able to keep our family together.

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How a shocking environmental disaster was uncovered off the California coast after 70 years - CBS News

How a shocking environmental disaster was uncovered off the California coast after 70 years - CBS News: The lasting effects of DDT contamination are killing an alarming number of California sea lions.

Just 10 miles off the coast of Los Angeles lurks an environmental disaster over 70 years in the making, which few have ever heard about. That is, until now, thanks to the research of a University of California marine scientist named David Valentine. 

Working with little more than rumors and a hunch, curiosity guided him 3,000 feet below the ocean's surface. A few hours of research time and an autonomous robotic submersible unearthed what had been hidden since the 1940s: countless barrels of toxic waste, laced with DDT, littering the ocean floor in between Long Beach and Catalina Island. 

The fact that his underwater camera spotted dozens of decaying barrels immediately in what is otherwise a barren, desert-like sea floor, Valentine says, is evidence that the number of barrels is likely immense. Although the exact number is still unknown, a historical account estimates it may be as many as a half a million.

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Jane Fonda calls on Hollywood to address inequality so all can be 'seen and heard' in powerful Golden Globes speech

 

Accepting the award, Fonda used the moment to address her "community of storytellers" who have long fought to share their art "in turbulent crisis" moments throughout history, not unlike the one the world is currently in.

"Stories can change our hearts and our minds, they can help us see each other in a new light, to have empathy, to recognize that, for all our diversity, we are humans first," she said. " The non-linear, non-cerebral forms that are art speak on a different frequency and generate a new energy that jolt us open and penetrate our defenses so we can see and hear what we may have been afraid of seeing and hearing."

She went on say there's "a story we've been afraid to see and hear about ourselves" in Hollywood. "[It's] a story we've been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry. A story about which voices we respect and elevate and which we tune out: a story about who's offered a seat at the table and who's kept out of the rooms where decisions are made. So, let's all of us — including the groups that decide who gets hired and what gets made and who wins awards, let's all off us make an effort to expand that tent so everyone rises and everyone's story has a chance to be seen and heard.... Art has always been not just in step with history, but has led the way, so let's be leaders."

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Woman puts Gorilla Glue spray in hair

 

“Hey y’all,” she says cheerily in the first video, eyes wide open, possibly because her forehead no longer moves. “My hair has been like this for about a month now. It’s not by choice. No, it’s not by choice.”

No, choice is not part of this equation. Like a mad scientist, she flashes a bottle of göt2b and then the Gorilla Spray Adhesive. Without blinking, she strongly warns followers to not assume the latter is a suitable substitute. Yes. One is a hair product. The other could stick a grand piano to the side of skyscraper.

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Pug Dog Pawprint in Snow Creates a Penis Art Piece - Video

You know when a dog walks around, sniffing, and walking around some more, in circles, then he finally poops or pees. - When my dog finally poops, he takes off running playfully as soon as the last bit hits the ground. 

Well here is a video I saw this morning on reddit.com that caught my eye and made me laugh so much. I ended up re-watching it a few times. 

The lady talking during the video is worth listening to. 

This Pug is walking on light snow as he gets prepared to pee and his pawprint ends up creating an art-piece worth watching! 

The Comments on reddit on this video really cracked me up. Some people are so witty and hilarious with what they reply.

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Bob always enters at a half-jog with his arms just bouncing around and laughing. 

It will grow on you if you haven't noticed it yet.

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